On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 03:21:20PM -0500, Jeff Noxon wrote: > Why, pray tell, are you trying to install RedHat postgresql RPMs on a Debian > system? Debian has postgresql 6.5.3 already, in frozen. What you are doing > with RPMs is just asking for trouble. > > The easiest thing to do is just upgrade your whole system to frozen. If you > can't, then set up apt (/etc/apt/sources.list) to access your nearest mirror > and run "apt-get install postgresql" ... this should upgrade just postgresql > and the parts of your system it depends on.
Yes, and make sure you dump your old postgres database before upgrade. The newer postgresql uses a different binary format. > On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 03:10:35PM -0500, w trillich wrote: > > aaugh! > > > > i'm having my fourth day of troubles trying to upgrade > > my 6.3 pgsql (came on the debian cd) to 6.5.3, and i'm hoping > > someone might have the insight i need to get over this hurdle... > > > > these are the postgres files i'd love to install: > > postgresql-6.5.3-3.i386.rpm > > or > > postgresql-devel-6.5.3-3.i386.rpm > > postgresql-perl-6.5.3-3.i386.rpm > > postgresql-server-6.5.3-3.i386.rpm > > postgresql-test-6.5.3-3.i386.rpm > > onto <snip> -- ¶ One·should·only·use·the·ASCII·characterset·when·compos » ing·email·messages.
